Conformator attachment for hats



H. L. MOSES.

CONFORMATOR ATTACHMENT FOR HATS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1919.

1,362,343, Patented Dec. 14,1920

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. UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT L. MOSES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO M. S. LEVY AND SONS, INC., OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A COR- PORATION OF. DELAWARE.

CONFORMATOR ATTACHMENT FOR HATS.

Application filed June 3, 1919.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HERBERT L. Mosns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conformator Attachments for Hats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a c'onformator attachment for hats and has for its object to provide a hat with a permanent conformator of improved construction whereby the hat may be made more comfortable for the wearer.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved construction and arrangement of conformator attachment for hats whereby the hat may be made to accurately fit the head and which will avoid undue pressure around the head and leaving therearound marks when the hat is removed.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing 'Wherein,-

Figure 1 shows .a cross-sectional detail through a hat the crown of which sustains my'improved conformator attachment, and

Fig' 2 illustrates on an enlarged scale a portion of a crown and brim with the improved device supported from the wall of the crown and the relation of sweat-band with respect to the improved device.

Referring to the drawing the numeral 5, designates the brim of a hat and 6, the crown thereof. It is not essential to the invention Whether the hat be of straw or felt as the invention is readily applicable to either.

My invention resides in the provision of an improved constructi0n and arrangement of flexible band to extend around the interior of the crown between the wall of the latter and the annular sweat-band, and in the novel manner in which that flexible band is sustained.

The flexible band 7, is preferably, although not necessarily, formed of elastic material, such as an elastic ribbon or webbing, whereby to enable the same to expand or contract circumferentially and thus enable it to more readily conform to any irregularities in the head and at the same time vary somewhat in circumference to fit heads properly and snugly.

As illustrated in the drawing. I prefer to sustain the band 7 from the wall 8, of the crown by means of stitches or threads Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14:, 1920. Serial No.'301,479.

9, which pass through the band at a point removed from both the upper and lower edges 10 and 11 of said band. In the form plane.

The stitches 9, may therefore be said to be radial flexible suspension means by which the band is suspended from the crown wall in a way that both the upper and lower edges of the band are free to conform to the head and to thereby provide a floating band.

By reference to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be seen that the stitches 9, pass through the band in a horizontal plane and that those same stitches pass through the crown wall 8, at a point elevated with respect to the br1m5, of the hat. It will also be noted that the lower edge 11, of the floating flex- .ible band is slightly elevated with respect to the bottom 12 of the brim.

The construction of the sweat-band 13, is immaterial to the invention, and may be any of the well-known kinds, with or without ventilation features.

In the present instance the sweat-band has a flap 14, at one'edge by which it is attached to the base of the crown by means of stitches 15, and from said attached point the sweat-band extends inwardly at 16, and then upwardly at 17, so that the upwardly extending portion 17, will extend around the inner or smaller circumference of the floating band 7. By this means the floating band keeps the sweat band spaced from the crown wall 8, and the sweat-band 13 conceals the suspension stitches 9, by which the floating band 7 is sustained.

In practice it is found that not only does the floating band enable the hat to conform to the head but that it more securely holds the hat on the head'with ease and comfort to the wearer.

Having described my invention, what I claim is,-

1. A hat having a crown and a brim with a sweat-band on the interior of the crown, and a flexible band extending around the interior of the crown between the crownwall and sweat-band but spaced fromgthe crown-wall and securing devices extendlng .from the crown-wall across the space and engaging the flexible band at a point that is spaced from both the upper and lower edges of the flexible band whereby to leai e both of said band-edges free but hold the band in a floating position between the crown-wall and the sweat-band.

2. A hat having a crown and a brim with a sweat-band on the interior of the crown,

' a flexible band interposed between the sweatband and the crown-wall but spaced from the latter wall and a series of sustaining threads passing through the crown-wall and extending across the said space to and engaging the flexible band said threads being attached to the flexible band at a point that is spaced from both the upper and lower edges of the flexible band whereby to hold the band in a floating position and leave said upper and lower edges thereof free and flexible.

In testimony whereofI aflix my signature.

HERBERT L. MOSES. 

